[From I'roc. l. S. Xal. Mux., xi, IWK. |..:{l»;.] 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF INSECT, FONTARIA PUL- 

 CHELLA, FROM STRAWBERRY PLAINS, JEFFERSON COUNTY, 

 TENNESSEE. 



KY <UAULK.S II. nul.I.MAN. 



Fontaria pulchella, .sji. uov. 



D'hujuosU. — Kciated to F. oblonffn* Koch, but the hiteial caiinje 

 smaller, and ju'odiiced into a sharp i»oint posteriorly; repujinatorial 

 pore suhinferior; ventral spine large, cylindrical, tapering-, curved out- 

 wards. 



Type.—V. S. Nat. Mus.; No. 404, Author's coll. 



Description. — llrown, lateral carina' and jiosterior border of segments 

 red; legs an<l under parts yellow. Uody very robust, anterior segment 

 scarcely attenuated; smooth, with numer<ms short lines, as in castanca 

 and teniics.sccmis; papilhe less iirominent. Vertex sulcus distinct; 

 tbveohe single. Lateral carina' small, margins swollen and produced 

 jxisteriorly into a sharp point. Repugnatorial ]»ore large, subinl'erior, 

 subapical. Ventral plate armed ; coxa* unarmed. Length, 20""" ; width, 

 4.3"""; height, 4.2"'"'. 



Dr. Koch's iigun^ of Fontaria ohUm<i<( represents a species which is 

 more de])ressed, lateral carina' larger, and the repugnatorial pores not 

 subinferi((r, but on the ni>per side as in casiamu or tonusseensis. 



The white Avith which he says the lateral carina' and posterior border 

 of segments are colored is probably red, faded by bad alcohol. 



This species is described from two females collected at Strawberry 

 Plains by Mr. Charles B. Brainier, of Mossy Creek, Tennessee. 



Indiana University, Xovembcr 1, 1888. 



* Fontaria oblonga Koch, Syst. Myr., 142, 1847 (Pennsylvania). 

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